Martina McBride – Do It Anyway!
You CAN spend your whole life buildin'
Something from nothin
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway
You can love someone with all YOUR heart
For all the right reasons
And in a moment they can choose to walk away
love em anyway
You CAN chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your
way
Dream it anyway
God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
Yeah I do it anyway, YEAH, YEAH
God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it
should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway
You can pour your soul out singin'
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway, YEAH, YEAH
This worlds gone crazy
And it's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway
I sing
I dream
I love anyway, yeah.
Mother Theresa – Build It Anyway!
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful you will win some false friends and some true
enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build it anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world your best, and it may never be enough;
Give the world your best anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Ozymandias
“Look on my works ye mighty and despair!”
Ozymandias –
The 'Younger Memnon' statue of
Ramesses II in the British
Museum that inspired the poem
Percy Shelley apparently wrote this sonnet in
competition with his friend Horace Smith, as
Smith published a sonnet a month after
Shelley's, in the same magazine, which takes
the same subject, tells the same story, and
makes the same moral point. It was originally
published under the same title as Shelley's
verse; in later collections, however, Smith
retitled it "On A Stupendous Leg of Granite,
Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts
of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted
Below".
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822)
OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless
Things. The hand that mocked them and the heart
that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said:
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the
desert.
Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless
Things.
The hand that mocked them and the heart
that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Horace Smith
(December 31, 1779 - July 12, 1849)
On a Stupendous Leg of Granite
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows: "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand." - The City's gone, Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder,- and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in
chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to
guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
Where London Stood . . .
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
The Bank of England as a Pompeii ruin
When the New Zealander Comes - '....When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the
midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of
St. Paul's.'--Macaulay.
Modern Examples
Charleston, SC after the Civil War
After the San Francisco Earthquake,
What is next?
The Fall of Saddam Hussein
Just for fun!
Scene from the movie Planet of the Apes
Scene from the movie
– Logan’s Run
SEE MORE FUTURISTIC EXAMPLES
A Little Scary? What is the agenda?
The Statue of Liberty, if not first
felled by an earthquake, would
likely be flattened by glaciers that
have advanced on the region three
times in the past 100,000 years.
In a city bereft of humans, concrete
cracks, weeds invade, and mammals
multiply. Paper money stored in a sealed
safe could remain intact for eons.
Earth Without People – Discover Magazine, 2005